Museum to keep track of train collection

Carol Biliczky

Saturday

Oct 31, 2009 at 12:01 AMOct 31, 2009 at 8:04 PM

The University of Akron bought Quaker Square complex largely to use the hotel as a residence hall for students. But UA is preserving some of the memorabilia that made the complex a tourist mecca with a new museum that opened Thursday.

The University of Akron bought Quaker Square complex largely to use the hotel as a residence hall for students.

But UA is preserving some of the memorabilia that made the complex a tourist mecca with a new museum that opened Thursday.

The former marketing manager for Quaker Square spent the past nine months combing the bowels of the shopping, hotel and entertainment complex to locate antiques and collectibles that in some cases had been locked away for years.